Honored and grateful to share this essay resurrected from three years ago when I was a inhabiting a different body and anticipating two new lives for myself and my soon-to-be-son. Wishing I had more time and energy to write, revise, and polish pieces like this one. A writer-mother-teacher can dream. Thankful to Barbara Jane Reyes and #allpinayeverything for giving this little meditation a home and allowing these words to see the light of day. Here’s to more writing & reading for #FAHM and for every day of the year.
Excerpt from “Waters I’ve Known”
We sip from the stars. This blue marble fed by interstellar ice. Before the sun had ever formed, from a cold, molecular cloud come our seas, lakes, and rivers that once were ions and ices fused in frigid chemistry. Our water sprang from the void, was launched from one stellar system to another, and then packed as frozen, cometary time capsules composed of gas, dust, and ice. Born of an interstellar heritage, our oceans travelled first as comets, asteroids, and hybrid space voyagers known as centaurs.
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Rashaan Alexis Meneses 